A quick start guide to the CC3200 Launchpad:

Out Of the Box feeling

OOB application is very nice, you can connect to the AP without security and then you go to the 192.168.1.1 (or http://mysimplelink.net , as indicated by TI, if you think that’s shorter…). Here answers a small webserver that serves some (uncompressed) html files that are a frontend to the configuration settings and also some nice demo programs and documentation.

Issues:

Profiles won’t be saved if the WPA2 key is too long. Even in OOB Fw.

Flashing without format won’t work.

Formatting various sizes (1MB, 2MB, 4MB, 8MB, 16MB from Format Options window that comes after you push Format button) leads to strange results, my CC3200 Launchpad has responded well only on 4MB. Even the OOB was unable to restore the board without reformatting to 4MB.

I noticed that sometimes the CC3200LP communication enters in a strange mode, appearing offline to Exosite and the Dashboard is showing up some negative temperatures. The LP responds to ping, the uptime displayed by the http server is ok. Only a power cycle reset solves it…

Datasheet & Documents:

Similar devices:

First was the badBIOS. Now BadUSB. What’s next?

To read:

badBIOS – 2013 issue – Dragos Ruiu, @dragosr on Twitter, wrote about some alarming issues with malware that spreads between his computers, even to the unconnected one. Aliens, UFOs, SF Movie Characters… and other similar things eliminated, but the facts are there! Some software-thing goes from one point to another and makes his job.

OpenHAB setup on a Debian powered BeagleBone (white)

Resize the partition (the image is with a 1.6GB, I use a 8GB microSD):

[code lang=”C”]
fdisk -l
# show partitions
fdisk /dev/mmcblk0
# delete the 1.6G partition (p2)
# and create a new one from the same starting point to the end of the disk
shutdown -r
resize2fs /dev/mmcblk0p2
# you may now reboot for verification purposes
[/code]

Then you should update and upgrade. I prefer apt-get but aptitude is available.

Next step: make things confortable – mc and configure it with internal viewer and editor (mcedit), nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf , install ntpd, samba, telnet…. change the hostname in /etc/hostname

From the Nabtobox campaign

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Why Nabto-box?

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Announced price: $65 + shipping. For tinkerers and testers the campaign brings also some other solutions starting from $29.

If it will prove that is a secure device, it may be a great addon to any Home Automation Solution.

Other November Development Tools Deals include the DM240012 – MPLAB Starter Kit for PIC24E MCUs, the ADM00393 – MCP2200 Breakout Module and the Fubarino (sounds like King Arduino’s fooBar) TCHIP010 SD enabled Pic32 Development Board.